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James' test for minimal mentality, cited as describing morphogenesis.
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- William JamescitesPhilosopher cited for the principle 'thoughts are thinkers'—foundational to Levin's framework of active memory.
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- William James' criterion for mind, met by morphogenesis when achieving the same final shape despite perturbations.
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- Source paper introducing the TAME framework and its applications.
- The source paper introducing the TAME framework, published in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.
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